26 Mar
2012
26 Mar
'12
1:34 p.m.
On 26 Mar 2012 at 19:40, Tony Duell wrote:
I thnik if I was in this position, I'd want to use
whatever was used
originally by DEC. If thst was genuine rosewood (and so far I've not
seen a definite statement that it was), then (alas for the 'greens')
that's what I would try to get. I don't think the amount needed to
repair _one_ PDP8 would do that much ecological damage....
To be fair, there are many types of rosewood, not all of which are
over-harvested. I used to build birdhouses out of teak because I had
a ready source of scrap from a furniture maker. Heavy things, but
very durable. Bugs and woodpeckers wouldn't touch them.
I don't know what the appearance of an original "rosewood" PDP-8 side
panel was, but it's possible that it was only a veneer over a simple
base material. The veneer is comparatively inexpensive compared to a
dimenional plank of the same size.
--Chuck